You can still help Angelina and the MDA

Im going to tell you a story.

Angelina was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type 2 when she was 9 months old. The little girl, who lives with mom Erin and dad Frank in Liverpool, never sat up independently. She never crawled. She never walked. Shell have to rely on a power wheelchair to get around.

When she was diagnosed, we were told it would be unlikely that we would see her second birthday, Erin said.

But Angelina proved everyone wrong.

She is now a spunky 2-and-a-half-year-old who is thriving, Erin said. With all the things we have been told she couldn't or wouldn't do, SMA has never stopped her from having the determination to do things she sees other kids her age doing.

And as Angelina grows up, shes got a better and better chance of finding treatment as more and more research is completed in the field.

Do you know what funds that research?

Its you.

Your donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association are funding new research opportunities every day. And you helped me to provide some backing for those researchers with your donations for my bail for the MDAs 2014 Syracuse Lock-Up.

According to the MDA, more than 1,000 families in Central New York, like Angelinas, live with neuromuscular disease. That includes not only muscular dystrophy and SMA, but also amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is more colloquially known as Lou Gherigs disease.

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You can still help Angelina and the MDA